Former Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo’s opening remarks at the on-going Tea-Party Convention, exposed the inherent racism of this “White Supremacy Movement” — without bothering to hide it.
Essentially, what Tancredo said is that — Obama won because Jim Crow-era laws are not in the books, evidenced by him(Tancredo) insisting on using Obama’s middle name, Hussein, …..he being thankful Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona lost the 2008 presidential election — because Obama has mobilized an uprising, and by this statement: “People who could not even spell the word ‘vote‘ or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House.”
Notes:Why does Fox choose to use loaded term “illegals“? — On February 5, Fox News’ Fox & Friends aired on-screen text stating, “Estimates: 980,000 illegals living in FL,” continuing a Fox News pattern of using the pejorative and unprofessional term “illegals” to refer to immigrants in the United States without legal status. Prominent journalists’ associations have denounced the use of the term “illegals” by the news media, noting that the term “criminaliz[es] the person, not the action,” and “skew[s] the public debate on immigration issues.” [ READ MORE ] [ MORE TEA-PARTY CONVENTION COVERAGE ]
Confederate(Republican) Lynching Murderers:Brandon Piekarsky and Derrick Donchak — were acquitted of murder, aggravated assault, ethnic intimidation. Verdict sends “extremely dangerous” precedent, advocacy group says. Schuylkill County prosecutors alleged the beating was racially motivated. Incident drew national attention to small town of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania.
POTTSVILLE, Pennsylvania – Last week Friday, an ALL-WHITE jury acquitted two Pennsylvania teenagers of ALL serious charges against them stemming from the fatal beating of an “illegal” Mexican immigrant last summer.
Jurors acquitted 17-year-old Brandon Piekarsky of third-degree murder and ethnic intimidation. The jury cleared 19-year-old Derrick Donchak of aggravated assault and ethnic intimidation. Both were convicted of simple assault.
Does This Look Like Simple Assault?
Prosecutors cast Ramirez as the victim of a gang of drunken white teens motivated by their dislike of their small coal town’s burgeoning Hispanic population. Defense attorneys called Ramirez the aggressor and bitterly accused the district attorney’s office of twisting the facts out of a desperate need to cast blame. [ READ MORE ]
A month before the killing of Ramirez, two incidents in Long Island and Brooklyn, New York, BARBARIC WHITE REPUBLICAN HOODLUMS attacked and LYNCHED Hispanic immigrants.
Latino immigrants are prime targets for White Racists emboldened by the now four year old Republican campaign of HATE and XENOPHOBIA.
Immigrants have become MUTE PREY for criminals — due to the constant harping of fat-mouth bigots like Lou Dobbs of CNN, and the diseased Neo-NAZI criminals at Fox News and right-wing Talk-Radio — like the despicable one-legged baboon — Michael Savage — who work tirelessly to pour fuel into the hateful minds of the most intolerant imbeciles in America. Their contention — is that an “illegal alien” is the POISON responsible for all that is evil in America, and that immigrants are responsible for the current economic mess and more recently — the SWINE VIRUS.
Swine FLU: The Republican HATE Machine Incites Racism
To the hate-mongers on radio and TV, and their listeners, being an undocumented immigrant is a “stain that can never be erased,” with no path to atonement. To them (Republicans), immigrants are INHUMAN and HAVE NO RIGHTS! They are VERMIN that MUST BE CRUSHED!
This is unacceptable — and Obama better do something about it. Confiscate the confederate guns, legislate more stringent hate-crime laws, and last but most powerful — pass a comprehensive immigration bill, allowing millions to flock to the Democratic Party, pushing the criminal Republican party further into the fringes of the south. They can then all be herded into Texas and allowed to secede if they want to. Treasonous Governor Rick Perry, would welcome them with open arms!
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Notes: Some satisfied, others outraged with verdict for immigrant’s death
CNN: Friends and relatives of two teens accused in the beating death of a Mexican immigrant struggled to contain their relief as not-guilty verdicts were announced on the most serious charges against the former high school football stars Friday.
Gasps filled the courtroom and some had to be restrained by sheriff’s deputies as they tried to rush the defense table after Derrick Donchak, 19, and Brandon Piekarsky, 17, were acquitted of aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and ethnic intimidation for the death of Luis Ramirez.
Piekarsky was also found not guilty of third-degree murder for the death of Ramirez, who died of blunt force injuries after an encounter with the teens last summer. Read full article
GOP Has Hit the Dead-End of Politics:Who’s Going to Buy Their Fear and Hysteria? Today’s Repub diehards will go to their graves muttering about the fascist-socialist-gun-snatching tyranny of Barack Osama, convincing themselves sotto voce that, by fighting for a lower tax-rate for the extremely wealthy, they’re the true descendants of the American Revolution. As the teabag-besotted begillionaire Mitt Romney told a Republican crowd this weekend, with no apparent sense of his own absurdity, “We are the party of the revolutionaries, they [Democrats] are the party of the monarchists.”
Leslie Savan What sort of psychological bent would lead people to want to be part of a dead-end political party like the GOP has become?
Clearly, fear–stirring it as well as succumbing to it–is central to such a psyche, and Republicans are swinging that big spiked mace as wildly as if it were the night before a bitterly contested election.
This Web ad that came out last week isn’t from Michael Savage or Glenn Beck (more from them later) but from House minority leader John Boehner and intel committee ranking Republican Pete Hoekstra.
Actually, we do feel safer, most people would say. The world doesn’t hate us quite as much now that a president is offering a handshake instead of the finger, and we’re not alienating our allies now that we’re not asking them to jump off the Geneva Convention while screaming “Yee-ha!” all the way down.
The strange thing is that Repubs are still producing this kind of National Security theater, complete with cardiac arrest-soundtrack, even though it’s failed time and again over the past two years in campaign ads for Tom Tancredo, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, and just about every other doomed GOP hopeful.
At some point the vaunted Republican noise machine stopped being about winning elections and became instead a feckless attempt at mass justification, popping out one lame excuse after another for the party’s failures. And it was a short leap from there to simply hitting rewind on the rightwing’s longtime romance with a Lost Cause. Like Southerners still waving the stars’n'bars 150 years after Appomattox, or Col. Custer blithely riding up that coulee into an overwhelming force of Sioux and Cheyenne warriors, today’s Repub diehards will go to their graves muttering about the fascist-socialist-gun-snatching tyranny of Barack Osama, convincing themselves sotto voce that, by fighting for a lower tax-rate for the extremely wealthy, they’re the true descendants of the American Revolution. As the teabag-besotted begillionaire Mitt Romney told a Republican crowd this weekend, with no apparent sense of his own absurdity, “We are the party of the revolutionaries, they [Democrats] are the party of the monarchists.”
That new study indicating that conservatives might not quite understand that Stephen Colbert’s wingnut rants are devastating mockery rings true. Because not understanding isn’t just a failure to get the joke, it’s a defense mechanism: Without a certain level of cluelessness, the whole party would be knocking around in an unstatesmanlike manner, blurting, “My God, what have I done?” Isn’t it simpler to insist, as Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe does, that Arlen Specter’s flight from the GOP is exactly what the party needs to regain control of both the House and the Senate? “This is the first visible evidence that what happened in 1993 is happening again now,” Inhofe told Fox News, sounding like Caligula claiming that treasure chests of seashells were his tribute from Neptune for defeating the sea.
Why are these marble men so determined to resurrect dead, failed ideas? It isn’t simply because they don’t have new ones (which they don’t). There’s also a psychological payoff to committing yourself to a bankrupt idea–whether it’s the odd notion that cutting taxes will save us from our economic crisis of liquidity, or the disproved theory that abstinence-only education will decrease teen pregnancies.
The sad fact is, fidelity to a Lost Cause valorizes you, it imitates honor. So the Republican Party isn’t about greed or power or any base selfishness; rather, it’s about nobly committing to something larger than itself–ending abortion, spreading democracy by force, saving Terri Schiavo, or, as of late, saving the GOP itself from knowledge of itself. Never mind that none of those commitments is remotely achievable, even the last.
For the kingdom of Lost Cause Republicans is not of this world. This world is corrupt and fallen. But there is another world where all of our desires, be they sleeping with 72 virgins or living tax-free, will be fulfilled, and heavenly justice will prevail.
The beauty part about a Lost Cause is that you don’t have to struggle to find practical political solutions–that would require compromise and make you impure. Instead, you only have to make gestures and think magically. As Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina said, “The best way to get to 60 is to have a core group of Republicans who really do what they say and stand for their principles.”
To achieve purity, whether in a body politic or an individual body, you must be ever vigilant for contaminants. Corruption could come in the form of compromising on a stimulus package or saying something rude about Rush, or, this season, in the form of actual viruses. (Some GOPers conflated H1N1 with Specter by dubbing his defection as “The Swine Flew.“)
That is, purity requires paranoia, and what better paranoid fantasy of (white) purity befouled (by darker races) is there than the Mexican Immigrant Swine Flu Bioterrorist plot? See, says hate radio’s Michael Savage, the pandemic’s source isn’t pigs but Islamofacist terrorists who may have “concocted this virus and planted it in Mexico,” knowing full well that Mexican immigrants are the “perfect mules for bringing this virus into America.”
For Glenn Beck, the virus itself is the ruse, cleverly designed to put baby-killers in charge of the department of Health and Human Services. “She [Kathleen Sebelius] can be confirmed right out of the gate because of this swine flu. So don’t look over here, look at the swine flu, look at the swine flu, look at the swine flu. And she just goes right through the gate.”
Unclean! Unclean! They’ve all come back, those Goldwater-era obsessions–commie infiltration, brains getting washed, contaminants you can’t wash out. And now, from crazy-eyed Rep. Michelle Bachmann, Obama’s “re-education camps.”
Wait, haven’t we seen this movie before?
What’s an honest American to do besides take that long, last ride into the purity of a blinding flash of white?
About The Author: Leslie Savan is the author of Slam Dunks And No-Brainers: Pop Language in Your Life, the Media, and, Like…Whatever and The Sponsored Life: Ads, TV, and American Culture. A three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, she looks at the power of pop talk, at how everyday language is commercialized–and weaponized. She has appeared frequently on TV and radio to discuss advertising, and she’s thrilled to be a talking head in Helvetica, a film about the font. For the 2008 edition of “The Living Room Candidate,” the Museum of the Moving Image’s online exhibition of presidential ads, Savan wrote the playlist, “When Dems Attack.”
Allow me to state that Republicans will NEVER change, as long as the despicable and racist base still threatens to hang the party by the neck. They are buying guns in buckets — rocket-propelled grenade launchers, bazookas and concealable sniper rifles. Neo-NAZISM is on the rise –goaded by blind hate and psychopathic delusions like: “Obama is going to enslave whites,” “Obama is a Marxist who will take away all our guns” and that Obama has an agenda whereby all Americans will herded into FEMA-run concentration camps by a volunteer army of glassy-eyed liberal college graduates.
The G.O.P needs to split into two — so that these dangerous extremists in the party are relegated to a minority in America — permanently! They can then run Rush Limbaugh for president with Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin as his running mate.
Pandemic Paranoia: “Swine Flu” Fear & Loathing in the Conservative Media — Media personalities from the conservative echo chamber have baselessly blamed Mexican immigrants for spreading HIN1 virus (“swine flu“) across the border, despite the fact that several reports have indicated that U.S. swine flu patients had recently traveled to Mexico.
Right-Wing media NutBAGS have baselessly blamed Mexican immigrants for spreading swine flu across the border, despite the fact that several reports have indicated that U.S. swine flu patients had recently traveled to Mexico.
Standing out in this crowd of Cattle-Callers is Michelle “Aunt Thomasina” Malkin, a Filipino American in the mode of Micheal Steele, the Head Nigger in Charge at the RNC or James T. Harris — A ReTHUGliTOM Suffering From Acute “Negro-Negrophobia.”
Though, she constantly refers to herself as a “Great American,” she first, as far as I am concerned, IS a child of Filipino immigrants, and that makes her call to round up all Mexicans in the United States, and lately — that Mexican immigrants are disease carriers (leprosy carriersper Lou Dobbs), more despicable than the preachings of Sick Media Toilets like Micheal Savage, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh.
Note — “… Malkin was born on October 20, 1970 in Philadelphia to Filipino parents, Rafaela and Dr. Apolo Maglalang, while they were in the United States onSudent Visas. She grew up in Absecon, New Jersey. Malkin graduated from Oberlin College…. In 1993 she married Jesse Malkin, a Rhodes Scholar and former economist for the RAND Corporation. As of 2004, Jesse was a stay-at-home dad raising their two children. …”
Like other bigoted right-wing dumbNUTS, Malkin is just another xenophobic, right-wing racist anti-immigrant propagandist, armed with lies, bogus statistics and fallacies of logic.
She naturally attempts to associate all immigrants with terrorism and all that is evil — to justify ending immigration. In countless articles written for racist organizations like — The National Review, VDARE and Townhall, Michelle typically bashes and encourages racism against Muslims, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and especially immigrants.
She is a quintessential UNTIE-TOM — Marry a white racist and then worship everything white, including white trash.
What sort of psychological bent would lead people to want to be part of a dead-end political party like the GOP has become?
